* and the person who created this skin, although Jane can't find your link...

Early Life of Lim Bo Seng

Saturday, June 26, 2010

Lim Bo Seng was the 11th child but the first son of Lim Chee Gee.

At the age of 16, he came to Singapore and studied at Raffles Institution. He discontinued his education at the University of Hong Kong in 1929 when, upon his father's death, he inherited senior Lim's businesses which included the Hock Ann Biscuits and factories for brick manufacturing.

In 1930,he married Gan Choo Neo, a Straits-born Nonya with whom he had seven children. It was a love marriage, unusual in those days.